Printer&#39;s furniture.



N9. 841,098. PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907,

w. s. AIKMAN & H; 0. STEVENSON.

PRINTERS FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 23-, 1906.

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WILLIAM S. AIKMAN AND HENRY C. STEVENSON, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PRINTER-S FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 15, 1907.

Application filed March 23,1 906. Serial No. 307,737.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM S. AIKMAN and HENRY G. STEVENSON, citizens of'the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in printersfurniture and the object of our improvements is to provide improved and convenient means for filling unused space in In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a chase, showing our invention in use; Fig.2, an end view of a shoe forming a part of our invention;' Fig. 3, a top plan view of a shoe of modified construction, and Fig. 4 a view of the upper end of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 represents a chase, within which are five pieces of wood-furniture 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, respectively. Between said pieces of furniture 5 and 6 is a form 7. Located between the chase and the pieces of furniture 2 and 3 are four pairs of quoins 13 for locking the furniture and form in place.

The parts thus far described are all'of the character in general use and form no part of our invention proper, which latter comprises a metal plate 8, having a central opening 9 and eight shoes 10, each provided on its inner facewith two lips 11, adapted to yieldingly andfrictionally engage opposite sides of said plate 8. Our preferable style of shoe, as shown in Fig. 2, comprises two pieces of sheet metal 10 and 10 respectively. The latter is inserted within the former and pro vides a reinforced bearing for the edge of plate 8. One end of the shoe is preferably beveled, as shown, and two located at each corner of the plate, though they may be located otherwise, if desired. Located between the shoes and between theplate and the pieces of wood furniture 2, 3, 4, and 6 are four slugs 12, which afford additional bearings for the edge of the plate 8.

The shoe 14, of modified construction, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, is formed from a single piece of cast metal formed with the groove to receive the edge of the plate 8.

To use our invention, a plate 8, of suitable size for the space to be filled, is selected. Then two or more shoes are applied to each of its edges, asshown in Fig. 1, after which it is placed in position, with the finger inserted in the central opening 9, and is removed from the chase in the same manner.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a chase containing a form and suitable furniture, of a metal plate, and metal shoes arranged between the edge of the plate and the said furniture and each provided with yielding lips frictionally engaging opposite sides of the plate.

2. In printers furniture, a metal plate having a finger-opening, and metal shoes comprising two pieces of sheet metal, one of said pieces being folded around the other piece and provided with two lips adapted to yieldingly and frictionally engage opposite sides of the plate, the inner piece of metal providing a bearing for the edge of the plate.

3. In printers furniture, a metal plate, and a shoe comprising two pieces of sheet metal arranged one within the other, the outer piece having two lips formed at a right angle to the inner piece and adapted to receive the plate thereb'etween, the inner piece forming a bearing for the edge of plate.

4. In printers furniture, a shoe comprising two pieces of sheet metal arranged one within the other, the inner piece being flat and of rectangular form, the outer piece having two ofits opposite edges folded over two of the opposite edges of the inner piece and bent outwardly to form two parallel yielding lips projecting at a right angle to the inner piece for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM S. AIK'MAN. HENRY O. STEVENSON.

Witnesses:

O. K. TREGO, LE0 B. LINcoLN. 

